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Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

24 reviews

stirlitza's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Violence, Sexual violence, Death, and Rape

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Abortion, Torture, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

dorsetreader's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Grief, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Addiction, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Blood

alexandra_a_a's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Death, Child death, Child abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Ableism, Misogyny, and Abortion

microbemom's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Cursing, Mental illness, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

mypatronusisajedi's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Trafficking, Murder, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Rape

iva_kocourkova's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Violence, and Rape

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Sexual violence

Minor: Mental illness, Grief, Classism, and Addiction

jessiejessj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The fifth book in the series, Troubled Blood takes readers on a convoluted path that has every suspect looking like a murderer at one point, and simultaneously, the main character looking like a possible runaway instead of a possible victim. The character progression between Cormoran and Robin is intriguing also, as this is the first book in the series where I found their friendship/relationship frustrating to experience as Cormoran’s personal situation has him lashing out, making me quite frustrated in his behaviour. While I did consider deducting stars due to the fact there’s a significant focus on rape in this book which made me uncomfortable, in the end the writing was so excellent and the reveal so shocking, I had to give it 5 stars in the end regardless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Mental illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, and Violence

emerion's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

The latest in the Strike/Robin detective agency series. It has a main investigation of a cold case, and several smaller jobs, running concurrently. These, plus the interplay between Strike, Robin and several new employees of the agency held my interest, despite the length of the book, which I would normally find off-putting. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence

katie_noelani's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Cancer, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

mishat's review against another edition

3.0

I went into this with trepidation because of what I'd read about it being transphobic, but I think that is a very unfair critique given what's actually in the book, as other people have said. I was also nervous because I do not want to read about sexual violence, and it was clear from the beginning that that was a possible aspect of this book. But reviewers were describing it as a cozy mystery, and I have faith in the author, and early on when there are some graphic details the characters step away and say things like "I don't need to hear the details," so I kept reading. Very disappointed that the graphic descriptions increased later on in the book. I did a lot of skipping ahead in those sections (I was listening to the audiobook) and don't feel I missed anything important to the story (which means they are gratuitous details). I also think the book is just bloated and overly long... so many unnecessary details about what they're having for lunch and who's taking a sip of coffee when and oh god the astrology. All that said, I love Robin and I like Strike, and their romantic tension is fun, and the mystery (several mysteries really) are interesting. The audiobook narrator is fantastic, really captures both Strike and Robin and all kinds of other characters with different accents.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Torture